Overview
- New and innovative analysis of Mendelssohn’s contributions to philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and aesthetics by a group of internationally acclaimed leading scholars in the fields
- Thorough and innovative analysis of Mendelssohn’s longstanding discussions with Spinoza, Wolff Baumgarten, Lambert, and Kant, and also of Morning Hours, the crowning philosophical treatise of Mendelssohn's career
- The only available English analysis of Mendelssohn’s essay on music
- and on probability
Part of the book series: Studies in German Idealism (SIGI, volume 13)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Aesthetics in Mendelssohn
- Critical Idealism according to Mendelssohn
- Free Will and Moral Necessity in Mendelssohn
- Mathematics and Philosophy in Moses Mendelssohn
- Probability in Wolff, Bernoulli and Mendelssohn
- Refutation of Idealism in Mendelssohn
- Spinoza in Mendelssohn
- The Sublime in Mendelssohn
- The Vocation of Man in Mendelssohn
- Theory of Language in Mendelssohn
- literary diction
About this book
This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought.  The first group of contributors explores themes in Mendelssohn’s metaphysics and aesthetics, presenting both their internal argumentative coherence and their historical context. The second outlines the context of Mendelssohn’s views on specific topics, and describes his contribution to the discussion of them.
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The essays are organized in four sections. The first pairs two essays on Mendelssohn’s theory of language and writing. The second section offers three essays addressing a number of topics in Mathematics and philosophy in Mendelssohn. A group of eight essays follows, dealing with Metaphysics in a historical context. The fourth section presents five essays discussing Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics in a historical context.
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Moses Mendelssohn’s Metaphysics and Aesthetics arises from a conference held in Amsterdam in 2009, which gathered numerous authorities to address the central theme. Taken together, these eighteen essays present a sophisticated portrait of Mendelssohn, packed with detail and rich in complexity.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics
Editors: Reinier Munk
Series Title: Studies in German Idealism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2451-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2450-1Published: 22 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3736-5Published: 29 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2451-8Published: 20 October 2011
Series ISSN: 1571-4764
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9868
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 382
Topics: History of Philosophy, Language and Literature, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language